Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the floor in " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could eat off the floor in her house . |
| 2 | ‘ Francis has left you well over double what would be regarded as the floor in this case . ’ |
| 3 | Michael looked up from where he knelt on the floor in front of the old armchair , his books spread out on the chair . |
| 4 | It shattered against panelling and crashed to the floor in jagged shards of tin . |
| 5 | Back room stage so small the performers have to rest their mike stands on the floor in front . |
| 6 | An instant later , the butt of Larsen 's gun slammed down on the back of the man 's head , and he crumpled to the floor in a senseless heap . |
| 7 | I had n't even looked at the floor in case I got nostalgic for my own personal locks now lost to me for ever . |
| 8 | If reduced to 1 Wound or below , Maximilian turns ethereal and then passes through the floor in the centre of the circle , leaving Juliane to her fate . |
| 9 | The most practical idea is to have a slight well let into the floor in front of the door and to fill it with coconut matting . |
| 10 | Mrs Sandra Lamb , also known as Sandi Baxter or Sandi Lamb , slumped to the floor in the dock as a jury was selected for the trial at Edinburgh Sheriff Court . |
| 11 | As soon as I rounded the line of fitted units screening off the kitchen I saw her slumped on the floor in the corner , huddled up as though against the cold . |
| 12 | But even if a choreographer breaks such regularity when setting a classical ballet he usually balances the pattern made on the floor in one enchaînement by another moving in the opposite direction . |
| 13 | Pike , on all fours , started to pad around the floor in search of the missing toupee . |
| 14 | Eubank has been at his best when right up against it and facing defeat , especially in the battle with Nigel Benn that first gave him the world middleweight title and then when he climbed off the floor in the second , tragic contest with Michael Watson . |
| 15 | And then she looked down again at the neatly typed list in the book , open on the floor in front of her . |
| 16 | Sometimes , if the lights had been left on , and I was unable to sleep , I 'd look across to Tom and feel great sorrow to see that fine man lying on the floor in a bleak underground room , with a rough blanket over his legs and cockroaches crawling over him as he slept . |
| 17 | The settee he had seen from the window was against one wall and Alfred Glynn was lying on the floor in front of it , his body oddly contorted . |
| 18 | and they dragged two of them in and there 's about ten people in the other side of the carriage in about this much space and there 's like two J F S kids lying on the floor in the middle of the carriage |
| 19 | The presence of hearths and the absence of material trampled into the floors in a number of examples may support the view that many were used as dwellings . |
| 20 | Mina piled up the plates and took them outside to wash , and the dog rummaged round the floor in search of bones . |
| 21 | They 'll sleep on the floor in the girl 's room . |
| 22 | After a moment , her knees gave way and she slithered to the floor in a clattering hail of cutlery . |
| 23 | At 2pm the fashion show takes to the floor in the ballroom . |
| 24 | and erm , then of course when they reached Felixstowe , everything was a bit chaotic because th they had to sleep on the floor in the schools down there |
| 25 | To correct the curve it was necessary to stretch the concavity and contract the convexity — in furtherance of which he spent a good deal of his time moving across the floor in a peculiar creeping posture , which Doctor Staples referred to as ‘ Klapp 's crawl ’ . |
| 26 | The student should stand with his feet apart and gradually let each foot slide across the floor in opposite directions . |
| 27 | Later , as he was crawling about the floor in his underclothes , looking under the bed for his slippers , Jannie asked , ‘ Why were you smoking , John ? ’ |
| 28 | If a character simply jumps in , he lands on the floor in location 63 . |
| 29 | Yes , Uncle … he collapsed on the floor in the studio … |
| 30 | The four sect heavies were hurled back , cannoning off the wall at their back , to land on the floor in bloody , twitching heaps . |